Isaiah 55:8

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Isaiah 55:1-13

The Great Invitation Isaiah 55:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Isaiah 55:1-13 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and fifty-third chapters. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw the marvelous story of redemption. The fifty-fourth chapter follows with God's appeal to Israel to sing because of the promise of her marvelous enlargement. God tells her she will break forth on the right hand, and on the left hand, that her seed will inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate city to be... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 55:8-13

The Certain Fulfilment of What Yahweh Has Purposed Through The Power Of His Word (Isaiah 55:8-13 ). Isaiah now concludes this section from Isaiah 40:1 onwards by a final statement of the triumph of God’s powerful word as it goes forward to do His will bringing new birth to creation and finally establishing victory to His people, bringing glory to His name. Thus will His purposes triumph. Beginning with the call of Abraham (chapter 41) and advancing through to the victory of God’s Davidic King... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 55:6-13

Isaiah 55:6-1 Chronicles : . Seek Yahweh, for the Great Deliverance is at Hand.— Let the exiles seek Yahweh, for the time is at hand. His plans for His people reach beyond their own as far as the heavens are exalted above the earth. Even as the rain and snow descend and do not return, but make the earth fruitful, so Yahweh’ s promise, that has gone forth from His lips, shall be accomplished without fail. (An utterance was looked upon by the Hebrews almost as a personal power fulfilling... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 55:8

My disposition and carriage is vastly differing from yours. If any man provoke or injure you, especially if he do it greatly, and frequently, and maliciously, you are very slow and backward to forgive him; and if you do or seem to forgive, and promise to forget, and pass it by, yet you retain a secret grudge in your hearts, and upon the least occasion and slight offence you forget your promise, and you are soon weary with forgiving, and prone to revenge yourselves upon him: but it is not so... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 55:6-9

GOD UNKNOWN YET KNOWNIsaiah 55:6-9. Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, &c.There is a paradox in these words. They invite us to seek a God who yet cannot be found, to know a God who yet cannot be known. For where should we seek God if not in His “ways;” or how shall we know Him except by coming to know His “thoughts”? And yet, while we are urged to seek Him, we are expressly told that His thoughts and ways are as high above ours as the heavens are high above the earth. Is God, then,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 55:8-9

GOD’S WAY OF PARDONING ABOVE MEN’SIsaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, &c.Suppose your sovereign taking a personal interest in you. But you have become a rebel. She has every justification in casting you off. Instead of this she makes an arrangement at great cost by which she is able to offer a free pardon. And this purely because of the benevolent interest she takes in you.Think of the Divine greatness (2 Chronicles 6:18) and holiness. Contrast these with our littleness and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 55:8-9

Isaiah 55:8-9 I. The errors, in opposition to which the doctrine of the text is to be asserted, are those connected with what has been technically termed anthropomorphism. II. The testimony of the text is not to be overstrained. There are qualifications and limitations that must be practically observed in applying it. (1) We are expressly taught to judge of the heart of God by what is in the heart of man. "Like as a father pitieth his children," etc. (2) But for such a liberty and warrant as we... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 55:8-9

DISCOURSE: 985GOD’S WAYS ABOVE OURSIsaiah 55:8-9. My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord: for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.MEN are apt to judge of God by themselves, and to suppose him restricted by such laws as they deem proper for their own observance. The wicked almost reduce him to a level with themselves in a moral view [Note: Psalms 50:21.]: and even the godly... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 55:1-13

Chapter 55Ho, every one that thirsteth ( Isaiah 55:1 ),Going into the glorious Kingdom Age. Now, God detests and hates commercialism. God hates how people take advantage of one another. Profiteering on someone else. God is going to bring down the whole commercial system. And when God brings it down there is going to be great rejoicing in heaven, though on earth there's going to be tremendous mourning and lamentation. But in Revelation 18:1-24 God spends a whole chapter telling of how He's going... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 55:1-13

Isaiah 55:12 . The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. Virgil has the like ideas. Eclogue 5: 62. Ipsi lætitia voces ad sidera jactant Intonsi montes; ipsæ jam carmina rupes, Ipsa sonant arbusta. That is, the unshorn mountains, elated with joy, raise their voices to the stars; yea, the rocks and groves resound with songs. The poets, as well as the prophets, sung the glory of the latter day. REFLECTIONS. The waters which flowed from the Gihon, the rivers of... read more

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